Nina Fleet’s life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired at 41 to a historic Queen Anne house in quaint Cymbeline, GA. But Nina’s barely settled into her new B&B-to-be when a penguin shows up on her porch. Or, at least, a man wearing a penguin suit.
Harry Westcott is making ends meet as an ice cream shop’s mascot and has a letter from his great-aunt, pledging to leave him the house. Too bad that’s not what her will says. Meanwhile, the Sisters of Perpetual Poverty have lost their lease. Real estate developer Gregory Bainbridge intends to turn the convent into a golfing community, so Cymbeline’s mayor persuades Nina to take in the elderly nuns. And then Nina finds the “penguin” again, this time lying in an alley with a kitchen knife in his chest.
A peek under the beak tells Nina it’s not Harry inside the costume, but Bainbridge. What was he doing in Harry’s penguin suit? Was the developer really the intended victim, or did the culprit mean to kill Harry? Whoever is out to stop Harry from contesting the sale of his great-aunt’s house may also be after Nina, so she teams up with him to cage the killer before someone clips her wings in Peach Clobbered, Anna Gerard’s charming first Georgia B&B mystery.
You will giggle, gasp and then giggle some more with this peach of a cozy!
Nina Fleet has divorced her philandering pro-golf husband and after a few months in a soulless condo she bought (on a whim!) a large house in Cymbeline, there are just a couple of niggling problems, the first - she hopes to open it as a B&B but the zoning people say no, and secondly someone is claiming that the house is rightfully his! When a (currently) out of work actor dressed in a VERY warm penguin costume starts by saying he has the proof that the house is his and then collapses, that it just the start of Nina's troubles, all of a sudden the "no you can't open a B&B" is turned into "yes you can if you take this group tomorrow" the group being some misplaced Nuns (I think my favourite bit is where Nina yells NO, realises what she has said and says yes she will take the Nuns but not for another couple of days to make sure the place is ready).
Then the person that everyone loves to hate is killed, whilst the Nun's are quietly protesting outside his office, for some reason though he is wearing the penguin costume that Harry was wearing previously, now Nina has a houseful of Nuns, people creeping round, Harry staying because he has a crazy stalker, so life is peachy in Georgia!
An Interview With A Character
What is your full name?
Nina Rachelle Fleet (and you are the first person to know my middle name!)
What is your Profession?
I used to work in the corporate world, but now I am a full-time innkeeper, owner of the Fleet House Bed and Breakfast in Cymbeline, Georgia
What is your current favourite book or movie?
I’m only 41, but I’m something of a nostalgia buff. I love Casablanca and watch it every time it’s on the TV schedule.
What is your go to comfort book or movie?
I like “vintage” gothic romances (hmmm…are we seeing a pattern?). One of my favorites to re-read is Barbara Michaels’ AMMIE, COME HOME
If someone was to play you in a movie who would it be? OR what would be the character you would want to be in a book?
Well, my ex-husband used to say I look a little like Sandra Bullock so I guess she’d be the lucky actress to play me.
What is your ideal evening?
Sitting outside on the back patio of my B&B with Mexican food delivered to my door that I can share with my Australian Shepherd, Mattie (she likes beef tacos without the lettuce). And I might have a Corona Light or a glass of nice chilled Moscato with that.
TOUR PARTICIPANTS
July 8 – The Book Decoder – REVIEW
July 8 – 4covert2overt ☼ A Place In The Spotlight ☼ – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
July 9 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
July 9 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 10 – Island Confidential – GUEST POST
July 10 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
July 11 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW
July 11 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW
July 11 – Reading Reality – REVIEW
July 12 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
July 12 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
July 12 – MJB Reviewers – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
July 13 – The Power of Words – REVIEW
July 13 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
July 14 – Brooke Blogs – CHARACTER GUEST POST
July 14 – Eskimo Princess Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 15 – Babs Book Bistro – GUEST POST
July 15 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 16 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
July 17 – Moonlight Rendezvous – REVIEW
July 17 – Books Direct – SPOTLIGHT
July 17 – I’m All About Books – REVIEW
July 18 – StoreyBook Reviews – REVIEW
July 18 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 19 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW
July 19 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Thank you for hosting me and Nina, and for the fun review. Glad you enjoyed PEACH CLOBBERED. ~Diane a/k/a Anna
Posted by: Anna Gerard | 07/11/2019 at 02:34 PM